44 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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July owes its name to one of the 
most dramatic incidents in history. 
After getting his tolls repeal bill 
through the Roman Senate, Caesar 
insisted upon keeping that body in 
session until it did something about 
the trusts. The Senate had been in 
continuous session for more than a 
year, almost every plank in the plat- 
form had been religiously kept, and 
many of the Senators had already 
given up their chautauqua work for 
one summer. The fact that Mark 
Antony, Caesar’s Secretary of State, 
was doing his chautauqua work on 
the side, which the Senators could not 
do, fadded bitterness to impatience. 
Caesar charged some of the Senators 
with joining in a business conspiracy 
to save the trusts. He said he had 
received thousands of letters from 
business men saying that unless they 
had peace and quiet for a while 
everything would collapse. He ac- 
cused Brutus, Casca and others of the 
Opposition party with ‘having  in- 
spired these letters, and announced 
his determination to keep the Senate 
at work until it passed his trust bill, 
if it took all summer. The next 
morning, while passing from the 
White House to the Senate chamber, 
he was set upon by Casca and Brutus 
and some of their associates, and as- 
sassinated. ‘Thus perished the great- 
est reformer the world had known up 
to that time, a soldier, statesman and 
author. He had ended the war in 
Gaul by dividing that country into 
three parts, revised the Roman tariff 
downward, reformed the currency, 
adjusted the canal tolls controversy 
with the Persians, and stuck strictly 
to business, neither going bear hunt- 
ing nor playing golf. Mark Antony, 
who preached the funeral oration, 
suggested that the month of Quinti- 
lius, in which he had been born, be- 
come his monument, and the name of 
the month was therefore changed to 
July. Being rid of Caesar, the Sen- 
ate adjourned, the trust bill was 
abandoned, and Rome fell. Once 
mistress of the world, it is now one 
of the little picture postal 
doms on the Mediterranean. 
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The college graduate will wake 
From dreams of being in demand 
And p. familias will make 
Him hustle as a harvest hand. 
The festive calf will swat the fly 
With nice precision in its plump, 
The territory voted dry 
Will sadly rally round the pump, 
The fisherman will cast his lot 
Where summer skies ‘are soft and 
blue, 
And the widow will discover that 
A one-piece bathing suit will do. 
The summer sun will take its place 
another season overhead, and all the 
area of space will turn a purgatory 
red. The iceman dashing toand fro will 
sound his reveille lat morn, the farmer 
while the sun is low will madly gallop 
through his corn, the mad dog fleeing 
from the brook will start the Marshal 
shooting slugs, the kingbird on its 
perch will look for army worms and 
doodlebugs, the baseball parks will 
bulge with fans exhorting men to 
might and main, and the crush 
around the soda stands will crack the 
onyx with the strain. 
The spirit born of Bunker Hill will 
fire a few belated shots, and practiced 
orators will thrill the populace on 
empty lots. The beacon lights of 
toy balloons will flash and twinkle in 
the night, the stir of patriotic tunes 
will yield a measure of delight, the 
doctor in his bubble cart will dash 
around likes -Pauls Revere, va (few 
choice spirits will depart for stand- 
ing just a little near, the fire. depart- 
ment will respond to hurry calls by 
telephone, and men shall turn with 
fancy fond to times when polo wasn’t 
known. 
They did not lick us then, my dears, 
As far as anybody knows, 
But auit the battlefield in tears 
And sometimes bleeding at 
nore. 
G. Washington alone made six 
Or seven goals, and Lafayette! 
Great Caesar’s ghost, what telling 
licks 
He gave them in the final set! 
We laid them out day after day 
Unitl so many of them died 
They threw their billycocks away 
And scooted for the other side. 
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On the morning of July 2 the sun 
and Sirius, the dog star, will rise to- 
gether for the first tive this:year, and 
the dog days will set in. In ancient 
Fgynt the dog star was credited with 
the floods in the Nile, which came at 
this season.of the year and gave the 
Egyptians their crops. The dog was 
worshipped as the god Isis, and many 
beautiful temples were built for it. 
The dog days originated with the Ro- 
mans, who attributed an evil influence 
to the dog star and objected to the 
theology of the Egyptians as it per- 
tained to this matter. Like all theo- 
logical disputes, this one became very 
bitter. Caesar suffered with the heat 
of the dog days until he took his 
army into Egypt, reducing that 
ancient empire to the wreck of its 
former glory which it remains today. 
The dog was taken out of the temple 
and put in the dog house, where it re- 
mains. Science has subsequently 
discovered that Sirius affected neither 
the floods in the Nile nor the heat 
in Rome. Both sides were wrong, as 
usually proves to have been the case 
in a theological dispute. The dog 
star will continue to rise with the sun 
every morning until August 11, when 
the dog days will end. 
On July 4 we will celebrate the an- 
niversary of our independence by 
shooting off the ammunition we had 
left after the British surrendered. 
Some of this powder is a little old and 
damp, but it will go off if one will 
wait long enough. ‘The accidents 
which happen on the Fourth are al- 
ost all due to lack of confidence in 
it upon the part of people who insist 
upon going back to see if it hasn’t 
gone out. The same thing happened 
the British during the Revolution. 
They were blown up a dozen different 
ti--es, and finally retired permanently. 
On July 8 Mr. Rockefeller will be 
75 years old, and gasoline will go up 
a cent. Mr. Rockefeller always 
makes his own presents. July 15 
will be St. Swithin’s day. According 
to the traditions, if it rains on St: 
Swithin’s day it will rain for the next 
40 days. It won’t rain. We don’t 
have 40 days’ rain in 25 years in this 
country any more. The Democrats 
don’t know how to make rain. 
For the first 21 days in the month 
Tuly will be under the influence of 
Cancer the Crab, the fourth sign of 
the zodiac. People born under this 
sign never let go, once they get hold. 
Mr. Rockefeller, who was born under 
it, is an example. The last to days 
of the month will be influenced by 
Leo the Lion, the ffthisignwomerre 
zodiac. Persons born under this sign’ 
are very brave. They won’t say 
Roosevelt discovered the River of © 
Doubt unless they think some 
moon will be full on the 7th. 
Then August will return a space 
To fricasee and glow, 
And Paradise will seem a place 
of everlasting snow. 
A SWELL SHow. 
“So vou are writing an un-to-date 
play. What is the title of it?” 
“I'm! calline it * Vaccination: 
“That ought to take.”—Boston 
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